Let These Videos Remind You Just How Amazing The World Can Be

It’s a beautiful world.

JACINTA BOWLER

9 NOV 2016

Planet Earth II, BBC’s latest nature documentary, has just starting showing in UK, and will soon reach the US and Australia.

The footage we’ve seen so far has been incredible, from death-defying lizards to love-struck sloths, so we thought it was a good time to put together a list of some of the amazing animal videos we’ve come across recently – from the beautiful, to the insane.

To start with, even the trailer for Planet Earth II is incredible.

There’s the lion that has an unfortunate run-in with a giraffe, and penguins that back-flip into crashing waves. Nature has never looked so awesome:

If you need more feels about wild animals, this sloth swimming across the Escudo Island to find a mate is heart-breaking:

It’s not just love stories that the BBC has been able to capture – a couple of days ago, everyone was rooting for this iguana that managed an incredible escape from a huge group of racer snakes: